Rockstar Mayhem Festival

My band finally uploaded a rough demo on YouTube/Facebook... http://youtube.com/watch?v=7tgixtULNJE Check it out, tell me what ya think, much appreciated guys

by any chance did REKKR influence you?

Please Greg, that's a million times better than Rekkr.

Rekkr helps us know how NOT to sound

^All of my yes.

I like it. Also, I will critique the shit out of this in a productive way.

I like it! What I do like is the guitar riffs. I think you guys have some solid riffs in there, especially the riff at 0:15. It sounds like some variation of Slayers "Mandatory Suicide" (I will call it that so explaining it is easier). Speaking of which, how heavily does Slayer influence you? So the riffs are good. However, they don't work very well together. For instance, the riff from 0:00 to 0:10 sets the song up to be fast (with a sweet Slayer/Lamb of God style to it), then you slow down with an palm muted chugging riff, then the slow "Mandatory Suicide" riff. It definitely caught me off guard. I know the palm mute chugging riff is the transition but I'd give the song a shot without that in there, to see how that works. Around 0:40, the Mandatory Suicide riff ends and a slow kind of feedbacky thing starts. I'd save that for another song. It slows everything down even more. Everything speeds up a bit at 1:04 with the next palm muted finger walking riff which is a good riff. The next riff starts abruptly, but that works out perfectly. I like that. Then you come back to the riff that is just chugging that sets up the Mandatory Suicide riff but this time you add in drums and suddenly it works a lot better. If you leave it in at the beginning, I suggest doing something on the drums to make it not so dull. So I could go on, but the riffs come back the same way that the previous minute or so use them which is good. For guitars, I would try some new things out between the fast and slow riffs. I think I hear a solo, but it sounds like it is just a few notes being bended, which is cool, but go nuts with it. The riff under the solo is sweet and sounds a bit like the Mandatory Suicide riff so it works really well. I don't hear bass guitar so I can't bitch for an annoyingly long time about that. I can with the drums! The drums aren't so good but its entirely possible that the mic wasn't able to pick up the drums very well. In any case I didn't hear much snare or toms so try adding them more, or try a different recording location because the mic may have been picking up the guitars to much for the drums to be heard properly, and there was a lot of hi hat (I could be wrong) which is fun because I like that count off kind of thing. I wish bands did that more often in recordings. The vocals were terribly hard to hear because of the instruments, and I can't comment on them. For the record I am really bored which is why I have listened to it 4 or 5 times now and is why I am bothering to write this. It is your song, so do what you want. I'm just trying to be helpful.

Dude your awesome hahah... But yea the production quality is shit, it was all done with an iPhone... I'm the drummer and I couldn't even hear the other instruments and on the recording i can hardly even hear any toms, bass drum, or snare either but they are there haha... Also we just got a new bassist a month ago and he's still learning the songs, he wasn't there when we recorded it which is why it sounds like we have no bass hahah

And Our biggest influences are lamb of god, Metallica, slayer, pantera, and machine head

give us a like a on facebook, we're gonna upload more stuff soon